Reality vs imagination: How to tell the difference | Charan Ranganath and Lex Fridman

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Charan Ranganath is a psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis, specializing in human memory. He is the author of a new book titled Why We Remember.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Charan Ranganath is a psychologist and neuroscientist at UC Davis, specializing in human memory. He is the author of a new book titled Why We Remember.

[crushinnihilism]

The question ought to be: Why think they are different?

The separation of imagination and reality is incredibly modern

[ywtcc]

More broadly, the act of observation always involves projecting some theory on to reality and measuring some difference.
There's no way to write down the data unless one already has projected some idea of time, space, energy, etc. on to reality.
All the thinking part of consciousness happens in the imagination.
The rest of it appears non deterministic. (By definition!)

[P.unchme]

Thanks for sharing. Definately food for thought

[doloresabernathy]

This model of imagination as memory ought to be testable with prolific fiction writers. Do they have more memories? better memories? But this scientist never reads literature so it never occurs to him to ask the question.

[DrJanpha]

They say that the only thing that exists is the story you are telling yourself.

[starstern]

I have an idea! Imagine something you’ve never perceived…. And… go

[TheOfficialAT]

I can’t take advise about imagination and its importance from a non creator aspect … book writers songwriters movie writers inventors etc definitely tap into something. And everything we see in our world that we created . Started from just imagination. Reassuring that imagination is very important and should be taken serious. Now the memory aspect I believe it’s a similar mental muscle in use when creating/ dreaming that is used to pull memories from a deeper place . Because those memories are usually broken up like remembering a dream . And I’m convinced at the moment that all these memories and imagination are in-betted in our DNA. Since Dna carries and stores information.

[Alritealritealrite]

And there's something called false memory OCD

[danielle]

it's clear this guy has absolutely *NO* idea about imagination (evinced not only by his reductive definition thereof, but also by the fact that he doesn't read hardly any fiction and how he equates the creative assemblage of episodic recall with imagination itself, as a ding an sich).